London, UK - March 18th 2022: Demonstrators hold placards, give speeches and occupy the road outside Stoke Newington Police station in protest at the strip search of black school girl Child Q

Child Q and that dirty word ‘black’

Do the same old social, financial, political, criminal issues arise whenever that dirty word ‘black’ is in the…


Acclaimed author George Lamming (L) with his first Caribbean publisher Lasana M. Sekou at a bookstore in Coral Gables, Florida, 1993. (Photo © House of Nehesi Publishers)

George Lamming (1927 – 2022) … Tribute

When we lose one of our greatest writers, we are thrown into mourning but when a publisher loses…


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2026 LISTINGS

Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga Eala , 2025 . Acrylic and oil on canvas , 188.5 x 203.5 cm . © Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga . Courtesy the Artist and October Gallery, London.
Camden Thursday 16 April – Saturday 16 May 2026

Inheriting the Future

Inheriting the Future is a major group exhibition at October Gallery bringing together new works by Zana Masombuka,…